Trevor Inns

Trevor Inns is a director of Tube Industries, an NASC member that supplies scaffold tube to UK wholesalers and hire companies. He moved into scaffold steel in 2023 after a long career in banking technology, which included CTO roles at Barclays and leading global payments programmes at HSBC. He writes Scaffmag’s monthly steel and tube price tracker. It covers where tube prices are heading and how CBAM will change what UK buyers pay for imported steel.

Tube costs rise, but the CBAM outlook eases

In his first monthly column for Scaffmag, Trevor Inns of Tube Industries examines the forces shaping scaffold tube costs and explains why his latest estimate of January’s CBAM impact is lower than he expected in October.